Mirrored:noryb009 wrote:531 and 531 PAE have been uploaded
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/
Mirrored:noryb009 wrote:531 and 531 PAE have been uploaded
The usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so is 34m size. Is this the right one? Sorry,you're talking to a newbie.ICPUG wrote:Thanks for that detail on how you solved your problem. How big is that driver? Can we get it uploaded somewhere so other users can get it without having to compile it for themselves?
Thank you very much! Added to the first post.shinobar wrote:Mirrored:noryb009 wrote:531 and 531 PAE have been uploaded
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/
Try LazY Puppy. It comes also as win-installer. Link below...voltaire wrote:Hi guys,
Forgive me for asking for a little support in here, but it probably won't get seen by the right people in the general area...
I'm trying to use the Windows installer because it's the only way with a IBM Thinkpad 570e which does not have any external drives, can't boot from USB or even PCMCIA, and doesn't have a network card. It originally came with Win98, but was upgraded to WinXP.
I installed the Puppy Linux 531.exe in WinXP and the Windows part of it went through with no problems. After reboot, it couldn't find the .sfs file.
So then I tried Quickset_Wary_Puppy_Linux_511.exe (after uninstall/reboot of previous attempt) and the Windows part also installed without a hitch, but upon reboot got basically the same error as the 531 install. At the splash screen whether I choose to "Load Save File" or not, I get:
-Loading drivers needed to access disk drives... DONE
-Searching for Puppy files in disk drives... wary_511.sfs not found. Drop ping out to initial-ramdisk console...
-/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
So then I go back in through Windows and in C:\Wary-511 there IS a wary_511.sfs there along with the other few files in that dir. I also see the gldr and Grub_GUI.gz in C:\
So any ideas of what to try? I'm kind of at the end of my rope trying to get a linux running on this laptop without any other way besides Windows installers. (Out of desperation, I've also tried the Wubi installer for Ubuntu and the Joli Windows installer... predictably, no joy with those...)
Do you think the issue may be related to this originally being a Win98 OS which was upgraded to XP? I think I read something somewhere about issues with 98...
Thanks in advance for any ideas. I think I'm gonna go try that Debian Windows installer now as a final act of desperation... I'd MUCH rather get good 'ole Puppy working though!
It seems the kernel issue, that is the disk driver cannot handle your hardware.voltaire wrote:-Loading drivers needed to access disk drives... DONE
-Searching for Puppy files in disk drives... wary_511.sfs not found. Drop ping out to initial-ramdisk console...
-/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
So then I go back in through Windows and in C:\Wary-511 there IS a wary_511.sfs there along with the other few files in that dir. I also see the gldr and Grub_GUI.gz in C:\
Thanks! I'll try this first. <fingers crossed>Try LazY Puppy. It comes also as win-installer. Link below...
Thanks. I was looking at Unetbootin, but figured that the result would be the same as with the two Windows-installer Puppys I already tried. I'll try a 4.x if the LazY Puppy doesn't work.It seems the kernel issue, that is the disk driver cannot handle your hardware.
Older version of Puppy may run, but the winodws installers provide only Puppies 5.x at this point of time...
There is a chance you try the Unetbootin with old(4.x) Puppies.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
By the way, how did you upgrade the Win98 to XP? I think you need some boot up media other than the HDD for the sake of an accident on the HDD.
I was given this laptop by someone who just wanted the data off of it, and I could keep it afterwards. He doesn't have/can't find the proprietary external drive that it once had, and since it can't boot from USB... here I am! I got his data off via thumbdrive, and now I just want to breathe a bit of life into this thing, since it's just too slow with XP to use for my purposes. If the HD ever dies on it, I'll probably cannibalize the LCD out of it and try to use it in my old ThinkPad with a broken screen.IF you have a floppy disc in your 570E you can boot from an external USB or CD using plop boot manager, or one of these dos boot utilities downloaded and saved to disk...
and boot.initimeout=5
default=0
gfxmenu=/Grub_GUI.gz
title Puppy Linux 530 PAE
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /Puppy-Linux-530-PAE/initrd.gz
kernel /Puppy-Linux-530-PAE/vmlinuz psubdir="Puppy-Linux-530-PAE" pfix=fsck
initrd /Puppy-Linux-530-PAE/initrd.gz
boot
title Puppy Linux 530 PAE - Do not load save file
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /Puppy-Linux-530-PAE/initrd.gz
kernel /Puppy-Linux-530-PAE/vmlinuz psubdir="Puppy-Linux-530-PAE" pfix=ram
initrd /Puppy-Linux-530-PAE/initrd.gz
boot
together with grbldr and grub_gui.gzboot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
c:\grldr="Start Puppy Linux"
I did encounter the same problem, earlier on a different PC, and fixed it [somehow?] by installing a different win32.exe file...I think I used 525?...which then got both of them working - maybe grldr got corrupted somehow?Aitch wrote:Check you have a puppy folder containing:
initrd.gz, vmlinuz, puppy_slacko.xxx.sfs, and slacko_save.2 or 3fs,
in your root [C:\] directory, and menu.lst.....and boot.ini ....together with grbldr and grub_gui.gz [EDIT: typo grldr not grbldr]
and you should be good to go...
Correct, winXP doesn't need it.grldr.mbr which may not be needed for WinXP, I think